Description
Steeping, Great, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, on the river Steeping, 1 1/2 mile NNW of Firsby station on the East Lincolnshire section of the G.N.R., and 3 miles ESE of Spilsby. It has a post office under Spilsby; money order office, Spilsby; telegraph office, Firsby railway station. Acreage, 1746; population, 225. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Earl of Ancaster. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Firsby, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church, erected in 1891, is a building of red brick and stone, consisting of chancel and nave only. The old church, a small building of sandstone and brick, is now used only for funerals. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
